Periodic radio and X-ray emission from an accreting white dwarf binary
Hotan, A. W. et al. Australian square kilometre array pathfinder: I. System description. Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust. 38,…
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Super Jupiters Expose a Long Standing Space Mystery
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The Universe Is Full of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes. Now Scientists Know Why
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Cosmic Voids May Contain the Universe’s Best Secrets
Nature abhors a vacuum, so the saying goes, but nobody told the universe. Space is filled with cosmic…